THE LEADER RING WOOD OKLAHOMA
THE ETERNAL YEARS
LOVE IN THE ORIENT
CONTROL DISEASES OF SWEET POTATOES
COURTSHIPS THAT GO ON UNDER
MANY DIFFICULTIES
Transcendent light with
Easter bom
PUItvith thy glow the battle-tom
"Seek the Udng among the dead”
Awaken those whose blood was jhedi
Dtm with thy glory cannon’s flame
Cleanse humankind of all Its shame
Ere day Is done
' — T Elliott Hlneo In
H C TOLLMAN D D LL D
ADIVJNE Father Dear to each
human aoul acting In and
through the eventa of dally
life and a rlaen Christ reveal-
ing Qod'a nature to ua through our
peraonal communion with hlml This
la the Easter triumph
Modern Chrlatlan criticism may dls-
euaa as it la now doing the historical
and Quasl-pbyalological problems as to
whether the risen Christ had a "ma-
terial body spiritualised” or a "spirit-
ual body materialised” whether hla
actual flesh and blood came forth
from the grave as tbs Gospel narra-
tive most distinctly gives us to under
stand or whether he bore that celes-
tial and incorruptible body which 8L
Paul declares Is the body of the res-
urrection Yet we need have no fear
that the conclusion — If one be ever
reached In the future— will affect that
vital truth on which our Christian
faith has been grounded for nlneteed
centuries
The lesson of the Resurrection Is
purely a personal and individual one
We do well to ask ourselves soberly
and seriously what that lesson Is
Like all divine truths It Is wondroua-
ly simple yet deeply significant and
full of transcendent responsibility It
means nothing less than such life-
union with Christ as to effect In us a
participation In his Immortal and di-
vine character— assuredly no easy
process but the struggle and achieve-
ment of a life In constant touch and
fellowship with him
The lesson of Easter plainly tells ua
that we must die to our aelflsh selves
to our littleness narrowness pride
and hate and rise to the eternal life
of service
No Easter triumph can come to any
soul without first a Golgotha of Indi-
vidual sacridce and self-renunciation
Heaven Is no lit place or condition for
a man who knows not what service Is
The risen Christ reveals the Immor-
tality of love realised In the aoul of
man a conception briefly summarised
by our Lord In the seeming paradox
"He that aaveth his life shall lose It
and he that loaetb hla life the same
shall save It"
The risen Christ reveala the Immor-
tality of truth The self-opinionated
whose prejudices and preconceptions
shut out honest Inquiry cannot com-
mune with a God of truth The rev-
elation of Christ was the revelation of
truth and Intellectual Integrity Is tbs
A WAKE O nations of the earth I
Comes mom of hope of Ufe
new birth
Meed ye the Resurrection call
Rulers of kingdoms foemen—aUt
Let strife be o'er the tumult cease
Crown Him anew the Prince of Peace
Ere day Is done
Now York Saturday Evanlng Mall
liberty of every son of God: "Ye
shall know the truth and the troth
shall make you free" r
The risen Christ reveala the Im-
mortality of service The divine a
tlvlty is continually self-giving -God
la forever showing the divineness of
service ' This Is the life of God and
It a a uniform Inflexible and eternal
law that we must enter Into such a
life before we can approach the toll-
nlte Ideal of humanity which reveals
God The flowers and starry heavens
sing together because there Is between
them the affinity of showing God's
beauty But between a aelflsh soul
and God there can be no communion
The risen Christ reveala what waa
central In the mind of God from eter
nlty This darling thought In divine
evolution was the perfect humanity
revealed In the Bon of Man We call
Christ our Lord our King our Mas-
ter and our God and Justly so but the
dearest title to him and the one often-
est upon his lips Is that of the Son
of Man because It shows what man
can be In him and through him To
that humanity we link our hopes of
Immortality and we are confident they
will not disappoint us
The lesson of Easter is simply this
that we live the Immortal life here
the life of love sacrifice truth beauty
and hope as revealed In Christ that
we enter Into such Individual fellow
ship with our Lord as to enable us to
realize In blm the life of God for be
has said: "He that hath seen me
hath seen the Father" that we ap-
propriate his divine life expressed In
the Joy of self-denial though It leads
us to Calvary '
EASTER MILLINERY
The Fried Egg The Lily
Great Mystery Is His
All the mysteries of land and wa
ter and air are being solved one by
one but the mystery of life and death
are hla Know thaL of a surety bad
he wished us to break the seal which
binds them In bis grasp he would
have made thg way clear Heaven Is
with him Let that sufflew until God's
time to make It plain
Sweet Potato Plant Showing Characteristic Symptoms of Stem Rot -
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Field diseases of sweet potatoes are
usually controlled by seed selection
and disinfection the proper prepara-
tion of the hotbed and crop rotation
Root rot which attacks other crops
besides sweet potatoes Is best con-
trolled by deep clean cultivation aer-
ation of the soli and crop rotation
Farmers' bulletin 714 a new publi-
cation of the department of agricul-
ture describes live of the principal
Held diseases of sweet potatoes These
are all caused by some fungi In the
seed or In the ground For stem rot
black root and foot rot the essential
point is to plant clean seed In a clean
hotbed If the field Itself becomes In-
fested use It for otber crops for a
period of three or four years Healthy
seed can be secured by selecting It
In the fall at digging time while the
potatoes are still attached to the
vines Each hill should be tested by
splitting the stem and potatoes should
be taken only from plants the Insides
of which are not streaked with black
It should be remembered however
8ectlon Through a Sweet Potato
8howlng the Blackened Ring Just
Below the Surface Caused by Stans-
v Rot Fungus
that a heavy frost will blacken the
bundles In the same way as stem rot
In the spring or during the winter It
Is frequently Impossible to tell wheth-
er the potatoes are diseased or not
since they become darkened after a
period of storage For this reason
fall selection Is essential
Just before they are bedded the
seed potatoes should be disinfected
by submerging them from live to ten
minutes In solution of one ounce
of corrosive sublimate to eight gal-
lons of water Only wooden vessels
should be used for disinfection Cor-
rosive sublimate it must be remem-
bered Is a strong poison and should
be kept out of tbe way of animals or
human beings After disinfection the
potatoes should be rlnBed In pure wa-
ter and laid In tbe sun to dry This
treatment will not destroy any fun-
gus within the potato but It will kill
spores that may be on the surface
That a hotbed should be free from
germs of the dlsesse Is almost as Im
FUNGUS DISEASE OF TOMATO
Wilt Is Slewly But Surely Infecting
Principal Seotlons of Country—
Effective Solution c
' A tomato disease called the wilt Is
slowly but surely Infecting the princi-
pal tomato sections of the country
The disease Is due to a fungus which
lives In the water channels of the
stems There It multiplies until they
actually choke or prevent tbe circula-
tion of moisture and the plant wilts
at first until finally It dies The dis-
ease lives over winter In the' soil and
enters tbe plant through the roots
Tomatoes eggplants and similar
crops should not be planted on Infect-
ed soli for a few years However
what promises to be the most effec-
tive solution Is to develop resistant
strains by constant selection Several
experiment stations have already ob-
tained very encouraging results
Spraying Is of no avail as the fungus
develops wttbin tbe plant where spray
cannot reach II
portant as that the seed potatoes
themselves should be Tbe common
practice of using the same soil In the
hotbed year after year Is probably oie
of the chief sources of distributing
sweet potato disease Even If the soli
Is thrown out after the hotbed season
Is over it frequently is left by the
side of the hotbed and Is used tbe
following year
Boll that has been used In the hot-
bed should be hauled away together
with all the rubbish around the bed
The framework of the hotbed and tbo
ground around it should then be thor-
oughly soaked with a solution of for-
maldehyde made by mixing one pint
of formalin and SO gallons of wator
An alternative solution may be made
by dissolving one pound of copper sul-
phate In 25 gallons of water Which-
ever solution Is used It Is advisable
that the treatment be repeated after
about twenty-four hours The fresh
soil preferably sand for the hotbed
should be obtained from soma place
where sweet potatoes have never been
grown A high spot In tbe Troods is
excellent for the purpose Tbe upper
six inches of the soil should be thrown
away and only the subsoil used Tbe
same Implements used to handle and
haul away tbe old dirt should not be
used for tbe new Boll unless they have
been cleaned and disinfected with t
solution of either formalin or corro-
sive sublimate "
An additional precaution la to cook-
all decayed or diseased potatoes be-
fore feeding them to stock and never
to throw them In the yard If this is
neglected disease may And Its way
to the hotbed through the medium of
stable manure -
These precautions In disinfecting
tbe seed and the - hotbed will of
course be largely wasted If tbe Held
Is Infected It Is not known exactly
how long the stem-rot fungus will
live In tbe soil Inf the absence of sweet
potatoes but probably tor several
years For this reason sweet potatoes
should not be planted In the same
ground oftener than once In three or
four years
Unlike stem rot black rot spreads
freely through potatoes In storage
It Is therefore most Important that
no potatoes with this disease And
their way Into the storage house It
Is also desirable to pick over tbe
seed In the spring again and discard
any potatoes with suspicious spots
Root rot and scurf are controlled
In much tbe same way as stem rot
black rot and foot roL Scurf It bus
been found Is worse on heavy soils
and on soils containing a large quan-
tity of organic matter such as ma-
nure A wet season Is also favorable
to the spread of the disease In con-
trolling foot rot It Is Important to re-
member that although this disease
attacks a great variety of plants It
has never been known to attack corn
or any of tbe cereals These can
therefore be grown on the Infected
grounds
Many Places to Cure
Seed Corn Properly
Good:
Special corn curing house -
Kitchen
Attic
Furnace room
Tool or wagon shed
Any dry and well-ventilated
building
Poor: '
On south side of building
On windmill or fence
' Under a porch
In the stable
Over bins of grain In the
granary '
- Any damp and poorly venti-
lated place
Grain Ration for Horse
A grain mixture of oats corn wheat
bran and oil meal la the best grain ration-
with some good bright mixed
bay to put fleeh oa horses
In Some Trlbee Several Swains Seqved
Their Adored Onee Until' the One
Chosen From Among the Oth-
- ere Haa Been Designated"
Some customs prevailing In cert air
parts of tiie Sudan bave been enter
talnlngly described In a series of let-
ters which an English traveler a min-
ister of education has written to his
wife who Is visiting America
He came across certain tribes where
the women he says "seem to -have
passed tbe limits of even American
women" and be naively adds that but
for tbe distance from Cairo tali' the
wildness of the country he "would will- -lngly
pass several months In tbe midst
of these good folk In order to 'learn
the meaning of virtue In both tbe an-
cient and the modern sense of tbe
word - r ' ’ "
“One girl may bave as many as from
seven to fifteen wooers wbo court
and flirt with her for a whole year In
the sight of her ‘parents- They not
only visit her In tbe daytime but re-
main at night near her dwelling to
mount guard outside her room going
so far even as to keep watch within
her room In oyder to be at her serv-
Ice'in case she should awake
' "If ehe asks for water as many
calabashes of water are offered to her
as there are lovers In attendance
Should she desire to pay calls on her
friends tbs whole of her lovers offer
to carry her palanquin and again It Is
the aspirants to her hand who under-'
take to anoint her with butter every
morning The period of courtship
lasts for a year at the end of which
period the beauty must make her
choice - When she does so the un-
successful wooers go away to repeat
their performance with another girl”
These maidens are black and nom-
inally at least Mohammedans but In
the matter of rights and liberties they
bave little to learn Tbe Shllluka ol
the White Nile on the other hand are
as far as possible from being Moham-
medans yet tbelr women have simi-
lar privileges -
"With tbe Shllluka It Is tbe women
that rule the household the young
women themselves that choose their
husbands and thaL once married as-
sume the -post of command The
strongest and most hot-headed man
dare not beat bis wife for he would be
looked down upon Immediately- and
would be unable to find a second wife
to succeed his first No missionary ef-
fort affects the Bbllluk woman it is
practically Impossible to convert her
either to Christianity or to Islamtsm
for she Is tbe guardian and depository
of tbe Sbllluk traditions religion and
historical customs" — Philadelphia Inquirer
Composition of tho Carrot
Carrots contain a large amount of
water 85 per cent Their most
distinguished dletetlcal substance Is
sugar of which they possess near-
ly 8V4 per cent Starch la also found
In small quantities with a small por-
tion of albumen Tbe ancients used
the seed both of the wild and cultivat-
ed carrot as an Internal medicine
against tbe bite of serpents they also
gave It to animals that had been stung
by them
Changed His Mind
When my youngest son was about
three years old he said he wanted to
save his pennies to buy a little sister
and one day he came running In all
excited and said: “Oh mother I saw
something 1 would like much better
than a sister Please let me buy It"
When I looked out of the window to
see wbat called his attention I saw
tha little monkey of an organ grinder
—Cleveland Leader
Czar Honors Emir of Bokhara
Tbe vastness of the Russian em-
pire was emphasised when it was made
known that the czar had appointed
Emir of Bokhara one of his tributary
monarebs an aide-de-camp general
attached to bis suite
Nicholas also sent the Emir a formal
message thanking him for the gifts
Bokhara has contributed to Russian
war funds and for the care which the
Asiatic prince has taken to see that
no disorder In his state disturbed Rus-
slaa Internal harmony
His Quest !
"You say you are a wanderer over
the face of the earth 7” wa asked tbe
shabby sad-eyed man with the utterly
hopeless air
"Yea" he answered with a sigh
"Seven years ago my wife sent me
out with a sample of yarn to match
and 1 am still trying to match IL"
- - - Diligent
"Wbat has he accomplished from
studying art!"
"Well he frequently palais the
tows red"